Welcome to our new webinar series ‘Connecting Plants & People’ hosted by Physiologia Plantarum (PPL) and the Scandinavian Plant Physiology Society (SPPS). The first event will feature the most recent work of up-and-coming scientists from the PPL and SPPS community.
Please register, for free, directly on the webinar platform.
The webinar is divided in two, before the live event you have the opportunity to view the pre-recorded presentations (20 min/talk) to get an in-depth view. At the event itself the speakers will give a quick summary (5-10 min) after which there will be time for questions and discussions with the speakers and the other participants.
May 10-20, 2021: View the pre-recorded presentations
May 20, 2021: Live event (all times are shown Stockholm time CEST)
12:30-12:40: Welcome by hosts Prof. Yrjö Helariutta and Prof. Christiane Funk
12: 40-12:50 Dr. Maija Sierla, University of Helsinki: “The receptor-like pseudokinase GHR1 regulates stomatal closure”
12:50-13:00 Dr. Ajay Kohli, International Rice Research Institute: “A drought-responsive rice amidohydrolase is the elusive plant guanine deaminase with the potential to modulate the epigenome”
13:00-13:10 Marylou Mantova, INRAE – Université Clermont Auvergne: “The interplay of hydraulic failure and cell vitality explains tree capacity to recover from drought”
13:10-13:15 – Break
13:15-13:25 Dr. Christopher Kesten, University of Copenhagen: “A family of peripheral membrane proteins safeguards cellulose synthases under adverse conditions”
13:25-13:35 Dr. Tore Brembu, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, will talk about his work on Silicanins in cell wall biomineralization.
13:35-13:45 Dr. Paul Hudson, KTH Stockholm: “Using targeted gene repression in cyanobacteria to guide metabolic engineering”
13:45-13:55 Dr. Simon Law, UPSC – Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences: “Nutrient enrichment destabilises the mycorrhizal economy in boreal forests”
13:55-15:00: Open discussion. Join the discussion rooms and meet the speakers for an informal conversation
The Scandinavian Plant Physiology Society was founded in 1947 with the aim to connect plant scientists and build a plant research community in the Nordic countries of Europe. SPPS supports a broad range of activities within plant science, stretching from conference organisation and travel grants to outreach, prestigious prizes, and small research grants, for around 1 million Swedish kronor per year. SPPS receives their funds from the society-owned journal Physiologia Plantarum. In this way profit from published plant research is redistributed to the researchers.
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Physiologia Plantarum was founded in 1948 and has since grown into an international journal. PPL is committed to publishing the best full-length original research papers that advance our understanding of primary mechanisms of plant development, growth, and productivity as well as plant interactions with the biotic and abiotic environment.
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Organisers:
Dr. Zsofia R. Stangl, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences & SPPS steering committee
Contact: zsofia.reka.stangl@slu.se
Prof. Christiane Funk, Umeå University & SPPS steering committee
Prof. Yrjö Helariutta, University of Helsinki & subject editor at PPL
Prof. Vaughan Hurry, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences & Editor in chief of PPL
Prof. Barbara A. Halkier, Unviersity of Copenhagen
Dr. Anke Carius, Secretary of SPPS
Prof. Paul Grini, University of Oslo & SPPS steering committee